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"We're really expecting this upcoming tax season to be one of the more challenging ones on record," said Kathy Pickering, executive director of The Tax Institute at H&R Block. "For your 2012 returns there's so much confusion about what will be impacted."

Looking ahead, she said, the government will use 2014 returns filed in 2015 to establish whether people obtained the correct subsidies or must be assessed a penalty out of their tax refunds for failing to obtain insurance under the law's mandates.